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What Does the Post Crash VC Market Look Like?

Both Sides of the Table

So we stayed close to our investment themes of: healthcare, fintech, computer vision, marketing technologies, video game infrastructure, sustainability and applied biology and we have partners that lead each practice area. We do deals in NYC, Paris, Seattle, Austin, San Francisco, London?—?but We also focus heavily on geographies.

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Remote First: Why Isn’t Every Company Boundaryless

ReadWriteStart

I explained why authorities like Sam Altman of Y-Combinator , Angel List’s Naval Ravikant, Twitter CEO, Jack Dorsey, and Bill Gurley, GP at Benchmark Capital , believe boundaryless companies built by remote-distributed teams are the future of work. The Big Question: Why isn’t every company distributed today?

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Brad Feld Drops Knowledge. Here’s What He Said …

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My initial desire to blog came from something that’s always been my approach to investing – I’m a nerd and I love to play with the technology and part of my approach has really been to understand things both at a user level and at a reasonably deep tentacle level. So we have five themes – Digital Life and Distribution are the other two.”.

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What the Past Can Tell Us About the Future of Social Networking

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AOL was controlled by one company and the Internet was distributed. They controlled distribution to the masses. It did not have the same success as Google’s acquisition and MySpace sold Photobucket 2 years later to a relatively unknown Seattle-based startup called Ontela for a reportedly $60 million. Is the game over?

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Nine Companies That Got Brand Right

YoungUpstarts

With a subscription-based razor delivery model, Dollar Shave Club outflanked Gillette by not distributing through traditional retailers. By inventing and patenting the technology for their fabric in 1969, they claimed the gold standard in waterproof fibers. Lindsay lives in Seattle with her husband and two children.

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Textio’s Founder Kieran Snyder on the Two Advantages Startups Have in AI (While Remaining Skeptical Of The Funding Gold Rush)

Hunter Walker

They are either building on some differentiated technology or more likely a differentiated data source – ideally a data source that is generated from within their own application, where the data is collected by default as people use their product. KS: For the first several years of Textio’s life, our team was entirely co-located in Seattle.

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SXSW Pitch Finalist: Syndio

Austin Startup

The Forrest Four-Cast: February 23, 2020 Seattle-based Syndio has a bold ambition: to eradicate unlawful pay disparities in the workplace. Maria Colacurcio giving her winning pitch for Syndio in Seattle last fall. The pay gap speaks to the distribution of women and minorities in a company. The equitably compensated Syndio team.